Acknowledgement of linked data sources

ALSWH’s national longitudinal surveys are complemented by an extensive health record linkage program. Linked data are essential for our comprehensive analyses of women’s health and health service utilisation, which ultimately inform Australian health policy.

ALSWH is extremely grateful to the responsible Data Custodians and Data Linkage Units for access to these collections. Specifically, we acknowledge the following:

Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) dataThe Departments of Health, Veterans’ Affairs, and Medicare Australia for providing MBS and PBS data, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) as the integrating authority.

National Death Index (NDI)The Data Linkage Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) for undertaking the data linkage to the NDI, and the contributing State and Territory Death Registers.

Aged Care CollectionsThe Departments of Health and Veterans’ Affairs for providing Aged Care data, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) as the integrating authority.

Australian Cancer DatabaseAll State and Territory Cancer Registries for contributing data, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) as the integrating authority.

Tasmanian Data Linkage Unit, and the Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania, for providing the Public Hospital Admitted Patient Episodes and Perinatal Data Collections.

Centre for Data Victorian Linkage, Department of Health and Human Services Victoria, for providing the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset, and the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity for the Victorian Perinatal Data Collection.

ALSWH is also supported by the Population Health Research Network which is a capability of the Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and Education Investment Fund Super Science Initiative. Click here to find out more about ALSWH’s linked data holdings.